Gotta love Bambi.. don’t you? ============= By Al Cambronne The U.S. now has 30 million deer, a hundred times more than a century ago. From California to Long Island, the rising deer population has resulted in widespread property damage and crop losses, as well as an increase in Lyme disease and often fatal deer-car collisions. The causes are clear: a lack of natural... Read more
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Stuck on a ship of cold fools
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global WarmingNot that you hear anything at all about ‘the mission’ on the ‘major media’. ================= YOU have to feel a touch of sympathy for the global warming scientists, journalists and other hangers-on aboard the Russian ship stuck in impenetrable ice in Antarctica, the mission they so confidently embarked on to establish solid evidence of melting ice caps resulting from climate change embarrassingly... Read more
The Chevron Shakedown Exposed
October 19 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Politically correctInteresting, but not a surprise. “Follow the money.” ============ When plaintiffs lawyers attack, corporations usually settle to avoid the astronomical costs of litigation. One happy exception is Chevron, CVX +0.11% which chose to fight an environmental tort shakedown in Ecuador. The result has been a tragicomic parade of malfeasance and outright fraud, much of which is now being revealed by the... Read more
Climate of Uncertainty
October 3 | Posted by mrossol | Environment, Global Warming======== Between 1998 and 2012 the global economy more than doubled in size—to some $71 trillion in GDP from $30 trillion. That’s the good news. Over the same period the world pumped more than 100 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That is supposedly the bad news. Yet global surface temperatures have remained essentially flat. That’s the mystery: If... Read more
GM discounted the Volt How Much!?
September 24 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Economics, EnvironmentThe rest of the story… ============ DETROIT (AP) – General Motors rolled out the Chevrolet Volt two years ago with lofty sales goals and the promise of a new technology that someday would help end America’s dependence on oil. So it seemed like a good thing in August when sales of the $40,000 car set a monthly record of 2,800. But a closer... Read more
Greens Against Green Energy?
September 5 | Posted by mrossol | EnvironmentHmm. Are they “green” or not? =========== A couple of weeks ago we wondered if green lobbying groups would object to new Department of Interior rules to streamline environmental approval for solar energy projects on hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land. (“The Solar-Painted Desert,” Aug. 13, 2012.) Well, here we go. Three environmental groups—Western Lands Project, Basin and Range Watch,... Read more
